he's with us from the site in washington. john, give us a sense of the room, sense of the president. by that, i mean all this talk about him connecting or not with people. today, some of the people with you there decided they needed to be heard. >> reporter: exactly, brian. the president faces this remarkable squeeze play. people on wall street, people in the business community say he's hostile, say he's anti-business. yet if you look at this poll we did for the town hall today, most americans say the president's policies are helping big business and wall street and not them. so he had to assure them that he's not going to make their lives more difficult but tell the average americans like that exhausted woman whose sound bite you played a moment ago, that he's on the case and he's trying to. she just has to have more patience before the results come. >> it's more than just him. he's defending in many ways an entire party with these elections coming. >> he's defending the entire party and trying to do two things, go on the at